I've gone for a baltic coloured crib (antique?) from babyco and matching change table, I've ordered the change pad in cream to match the existing wall colour also incase we have anymore, you never know!
I went for the fisher price aqurium bath, which is blue, my daughter picked it out and I figured the bath colour isn't going to matter too much!
My prams black and orange, so I'm going for a mix so far, but I don't know.
Originally I had a chocolate cot on layby but changed it to baltic as my sister in law bought chocolate and I want a nursery completely different to hers!
I'm painful I know but with this being bub number 3 and probably my last I just want to get it right!
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I'm all about matching and can be a bit anal when it comes to that! If I'm having pink then all the pinks will have the be the shame shade or compliment the main colour.
I have a Denim Bugaboo with the matching Moroccan OiOi Bag and I will probably get a Baba sling in navy to tie it all in. (See - anal) lol
I think it's great you are going to so much effort this time! Are you going to find out the sex?? I don't think I would be able to help myself - I would want to start decorating right away!!
I think the first place to start is the bedding set that you choose and go from there. You might find some inspiring colours from the bedding set to do your feature wall with!
Well I've got 4 to 5 weeks to goand we haven't really started on ours. We aren't painting as I don't believe in new carpet or paint in a new bubs room (paranoid about the chemicals). Our house is only a couple of years old though so we don't need to do either anyway.
We aren't going with a theme. We have a white cradle, white change table with drawers and the cot is still to be bought but I'm thinking we might stick with white so it matches what we have. We were given the change table.
At the moment everything is in our spare room in an absolute mess but I'm hoping that we get it sorted this weekend in case I go early. I do have his clothes washed and hung/stacked in the wardrobe so we've kind of made a start I guess.
We painted our spare room which became DD's room a cream colour and put a wallpaper border around the middle. I do have pics in my gallery I think. Our cot and changetable are baltic colours. We painted at about 5 months pregnant I think.
on the aquarium bath. I have one and dont really like it. It is small and DD grew out of it quickly. I didnt like the hammock because she would get cold whilst being bathed but it is ok for a new born.
I have very little done either!! Spare room that will be a nursery is still so full of stuff that we need to move but we dont have storage space for!!!! And also DH has not been enthused to move stuff!!
We have all the big stuff on lay bye Boori sleight cot in walnut and a chest of drawers with change thing on top in walnut, phil and ted dash pram and safe and sound meridian nevada car seat.
Will have pooh bear as a theme (as I love it and have heaps myself so dh got no choice!!) But will not paint or re carpet as paint is in good condition and is a peach colour so will get those stick on things and see no point in new carpet as bubs will wee and poo and chuck and chances are will hit carpet a few times!!
Havent bought a bath yet.
Have clothes and blankets all over the place in bags still in packets waiting to be washed and put away for baby!!
We have a white cot and have moved DS,s wardrobe and chest of drwers into the nursery and are building DS a built in robe.
We have gone for a green feature wall, with the remaining walls painted yellow. The colours are quite bright and cheery, we can add frogs and ducks for now then when he gets older we can go with crocodilies etc or an Aussie theme.
I love the room its just so fresh and relaxing, even with the bright colours.
amysarah85, so far looks like a boy but I've got a scan next thursday the 5th in which they'll confirm the sex as bub had legs shut and opened for only a few seconds sonographer thought she saw a willy between the legs so we're thinking boy at the present moment if we can't tell on thursday i'm having a 3d scan on the 5th of July so hopefully we'll know by then.
I'm going to be very anal this time, I wasn't with the first two as we didn't have the funds to be! I'm working full time from home with a daycare and my hubbies finally got a better job with better pay, which will help us out this time. Mind you he wasn't very impressed when the cot price jumped up $300 so that it was different to his sisters, mind you it's alot better quality cot too. I went to babyco this time, my last cot was a hand-me-down in excellent condition but we wern't expecting kids so soon(another story). Last time our pram was a bertini and we purchused a safe n sound royale retractor both new from myer. This time I've gone the safe n sound royale car seat again but not the retractor as ours played up last time.
Our house is only 3 years old built from new and the carpet is in new condition so I don't need to worry about that, but the paint. Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh it's builders paint and if you try to clean off a mark the paint washes off too, so I've given up..... I can just imagine the room after my two monkeys get in there with bubs it'll be black marks are us and I won't be able to clean it off! I'm a clean freak although I seem to be letting things go a bit more lately.
So so far I've got:
Pram: Bemma Q by swallow with bassinet insert..... 3 wheeler going to give it a try if I crack a nut I've still got my 4wd 4wheel bertini.
Carseat: Safe n sound royale
Cot: antique(Baltic) Gembrook by regent solid pine from babyco and is closed in one end open other.
Cot Mattress: Innerspring made by childcare (dunlop branded from baby target)
Changetable: matches the gembrook cot assume it's a gembrook change table made by regent with a cream change mat.
Bath: Fisher and price Aquarium bath blue in colour comes with some sort of mat and toys, not to sure about it but my daughter fell in love with it and I figure baby baths aren't to expensive to replace if it's not very good. Last time I had a all in one change table and bath where top lifted up, but thought I'd try a seperate bath this time.
Nappy wrapper: Tommee Tippee (never had one thought I'd try one)
(I'm going Avent for steriliser and bottles/brest pump as I had them last time)
Anyway that's where I'm at so far, I've got most of the big stuff covered, but when it comes to the theme I'm just stumped I don't want to go wild animals as that's what my girlfriend just did with a pale blue feature wall, my son's got disney cars theme and my daughters got a pink feature wall with lady bugs on it(her nickname is bettle) and disney princess quilt covers/ mink blanket. My sister in law has gone chocolate furniture and has cream walls but no theme so far.
Feed, looks like you've got a job ahead of you, I can remember washing the clothes for my other two and putting them all way, so far I've bought one jumpsuit bonds brand and left it at that, waiting for confirmation of sex before I go clothes crazy!
Jenjams, I'll have a look in gallery tomorrow!(Thanks)
Thanks for your input so far as i said i'm in need of inspiration, hubby is demanding attention, so I better be off!
Kelly, I have no idea when or what be bought, but our nursery was mint green with an argyle patterned feature wall. I measured out huge diamonds on the wall and they were a jacaranda colour and then I hot glue gunned ribbon in a musk shade to the wall for the thin crosses. It looked excellent!! (cos you are allowed to go a bit silly in a baby's room). We had mainly white furniture and DH painted a tallboy the same coulour as the diamonds (little does he know he's about to update it's colour lol)
We didn't go for a theme in our DD's room as we didn't knwo she was going to be a girl but I also didn't want to "make up our child's mind for them". I figured when they are odler they can choose colours and themes. Anyway we painted the room a beautiful green and all the furniture is a dark wood. A few simple wall hangings and I made her name in pink.
With your colours (which sound awesome!) I would stick to simple things like teddies - nothing too over the top.
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